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How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
- peter_d_sherman 7y agoExcerpt: "McCarthy explained Lisp to his readers by building it up out of only a very small collection of rules. Paul Graham later retraced McCarthy’s steps, using more readable language, in his essay “The Roots of Lisp” (http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html). Graham is able to explain Lisp using only seven primitive operators, two different notations for functions, and a half-dozen higher-level functions defined in terms of the primitive operators."
- daly 7y agoYou HAVE to listen to this song: https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/09/02/lisp-song-eternal-flame-aka-god-wrote-in-lisp-video/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/09/02/lisp-song-eternal-flame...
- okareaman 7y agoExcellent read. Well worth the time. I'm motivated to take another look at SICP.